GEORGETOWN – The search is on for a missing $11,166.50 dock the town bought for the American Legion Park on Pentucket Pond.
A smaller dock, which cost $3,679.70 and was assembled by the Boy Scouts, is floating in mud and water, but not attached to the shore.
The two docks were purchased a year ago from Great Northern Docks in Maine with $20,000 from the taxpayer-funded Community Preservation funds. One, which was T-shaped, 45-feet long by 15-feet across, was for swimming. That is the missing dock.
The second dock, which is 15 feet long, is meant for fishing.
When Parks and Recreation Commission Chair Michael Donahue asked the Town Administrator Orlando Pacheco, “Do we know where the fishing dock went?” Pacheco responded, “No idea where the dock would have gone.”
He ordered it two years ago and Pacheco offered to order a new dock. But it was unclear if the town’s funds have already been spent on the missing dock. Pacheco sent Donahue copies of receipts from Great Northern Docks.
If you know where the missing dock is and don’t want to call the town, tell The Town Common and we will anonymously report it to the town. ♦
